A half a dozen years ago I ditched the vac barrel and switched to a filter box. I ran the prototype ever since .
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I finally got around to building a version 3. The fixture will mount closer to the ground / dust bin so the vertical hose will be shorter. There will be a large hose reel mounted above but, for now it looks like this.
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I sucked up a gallon or so of random junk from the old shop vac barrel and the filter box looks like this
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Here's the gist of the structure.
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